DRONES

17.04.2024

Drones4Safety project at Transport Research Arena (TRA)

The Drone4Safety adds to the conversation on sustainable and accessible transportation

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WORKSHOP

21.03.2024

Festival of Research 2024 at SDU Sønderborg

The Festival of Research at SDU is back! On Saturday 20 April at 10.00 - 13.00, SDU Sønderborg invites you to a Saturday devoted to science.

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FUNDING

23.01.2024

Ali Khosravi receives seven million kroner for optimization of power-to-X systems

Ali Khosravi, Associate Professor at the Center for Industrial Mechanics, has received a prestigious Villum Young Investigator grant of seven million kroner.

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15.01.2024

Henrik Bindslev continues as Dean of TEK

In the years to come, Henrik Bindslev will continue to serve as the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (TEK) at the University of Southern Denmark. A unanimous employment committee has reappointed the seasoned force to be reckoned with in management and research, much to the delight of SDU and Henrik Bindslev himself.

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Grant

30.11.2023

Joe Alxandersen receives prestigious grant to fold together time and space

Joe Alexandersen, associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering, is among this year's 39 recipients of the Independent Research Fund's Sapere Aude grants for young talented research leaders. With a grant of just over 6 million, he aims to address one of the biggest challenges in so-called computational morphogenesis. This can, among other things, make wind turbines more efficient and silent.

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Drones

02.11.2023

Self-flying Inspection Drones Can Save Lives and Billions of Euros. And Soon, They Can Become Reality

In just five years, it may be autonomous, self-charging drones that monitor cracks in bridges, worn out railways, and other inspection tasks on critical infrastructure. The potential is enormous, say the researchers behind the European Drones4Safety project, which has just concluded

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Collaboration

15.10.2023

Close Indo-Danish Collaboration for Next-Generation Power to X Converter

The future of sustainable energy is here! The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Aalborg University, and the University of Southern Denmark have joined forces in a groundbreaking partnership with industrial giants like Danfoss Drives. Together, they're driving the 'Efficient Cost-saving Grid Friendly Power to X Converter' (ECoGrif) project, revolutionising the hydrogen economy.

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Research

16.05.2023

Meet Oliver Niebuhr: Exploring the Joy of Discovery and the Intricacies of Perception

Oliver Niebuhr, an Associate Professor at the Centre for Industrial Electronics, is a researcher driven by a passion for understanding the world and the thrill of uncovering new knowledge. In an enlightening interview, Niebuhr shares his motivations for becoming a researcher, alternative career aspirations, and the fascinating research area of psychoacoustics.

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19.04.2023

"M-prisen" for two talented mechanical engineers from SDU

We are proud to announce that Julie Lynge Madsen and Liv Obbekær have just received "M-prisen": An award for remarkably good exam projects from Denmark's engineering schools.

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01.02.2023

Emad Samuel Malki Ebeid has been appointed Head of Unit for SDU Digital and High-Frequency Electronics

SDU is establishing a new section with a focus on digital and high-frequency electronics. Emad Samuel Malki Ebeid, Professor at SDU, will be the head of the section.

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12.09.2022

Head of CIE Thomas Ebel has been appointed professor

56-year-old Thomas Ebel has been appointed professor of Advanced Capacitor Technologies. It has been four years since he took over as head of Centre for Industrial Electronics at SDU. Ebel has impressively managed to build the centre from scratch, so that CIE now stands as an example to follow when it comes to training engineers, state-of-the-art laboratories and industrial cooperation.

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16.06.2022

SDU and Diabatix enter into collaboration - computer muscles accelerate research

SDU and the Belgian software company Diabatix enter a strategic collaboration that pushes the boundaries of generative design and topology optimisation.

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11.05.2022

Christian Veje Head of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

Professor Christian Veje, who comes from the Centre for Energy Informatics at SDU, looks forward to strengthening industrial cooperation and drawing the strategic direction for the institute, when he takes over as head of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.

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15.02.2022

Engineering students from SDU Sønderborg will send a rocket into space

A group of engineering students from SDU in Sønderborg has ambitions to send a rocket into space. The goal is to participate in international competitions.

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16.12.2021

From apprentice to associate professor - Kasper Paasch

59-year-old Kasper Paasch teaches High Frequency Communication and is semester supervisor in 3rd-semester mechatronics at the Centre for Industrial Electronics. He is also a researcher in power electronics and solar cell systems. His passion for electronics, archery, history, and archaeology has not only created an unusual career path but also fills all hours of the day. His passions have materialised into a catapult, which is positioned at his home address. But this we will return to.

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25.08.2021

SDU project in Sierra Leone ensures clean water and strengthens teaching at TEK

Today, two engineers from SDU will land in Sierra Leone to help ensure clean drinking water in a project with Engineers Without Borders. They will also gain experience and knowledge that will be used in a large Danish drone project.

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02.08.2021

Vital vibrations

Vibrations are important and it can be hard to get the frequencies right. When the string was cut and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge inaugurated on July 1, 1940 in Pierce County, Washington, it could boast the title of the world's third longest suspension bridge. A title it only carried for a very short time, however. Just four months later, the bridge collapsed dramatically.

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09.07.2021

From Shanghai to Sønderborg: International award winner wants to work with space technology

In connection with his graduation from SDU in Sønderborg, Patrick Haffmans received the BHJ award for his master's project with Danfoss. With a German father, a Filipino mother and an upbringing in Shanghai, one would not think that it was written in the stars that he should take his master's degree in a Danish provincial town; but in fact, that was exactly what did.

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Voices

09.06.2021

Video conferencing: Women do worse than men

Researchers from SDU and the University of Magdeburg have investigated how different voices are perceived via online tools such as Zoom, Skype, or Teams. Not all frequencies are fully transmitted, which affects women, whose voices are perceived as less competent, expressive, and charismatic than men's voices.

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29.04.2021

All Danish universities join forces for the largest research and tech fair in the Nordic region

DIGITAL TECH SUMMIT will be Denmark's unifying showcase for digital technologies and a venue for strong research environments, technology leading companies and start-ups

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08.04.2021

Project to secure Danfoss' shares in an attractive billion market

The global market for speed-controlled pumps is a billion-dollar industry that is growing bigger and bigger alongside increasing urbanisation. Danfoss has entered into a project with Fachhochschule Kiel and SDU, which will ensure the Danish industrial group, the preferred solution in the market for pump controls.

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08.01.2021

New SDU equipment donated by Fabrikant Mads Clausen Foundation

Fabrikant Mads Clausen Foundation has showered SDU with donations and this for the benefit of both research and education at SDU.

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New department

22.10.2020

New Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at SDU

By the establishment of ‘Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering’, the Faculty of Engineering is strengthening the research and study programmes in mechanics, mechatronics and electronics.

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09.07.2020

Global need for 880,000 ventilators – robots can help us out

Ventilators are crucial in the fight against COVID-19, but an analysis by GlobalData shows that there is a global shortage of 880,000 ventilators. Collaborative robots – also known as cobots – might help meet the demand, says researchers from SDU and University of Cambridge.

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16.06.2020

SDU students 3D printing Corona hook for you to avoid touching infected door handles

Despite that society is gradually reopening, we must still pay extremely attention to COVID-19 and potential dissemination. Thus, students from SDU Sønderborg have 3D printed a so-called Corona door hook to avoid direct contact with door handles.

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10.06.2020

MCI Honorary Professor receives Endowed Chair and new institute

Honorary Professor and former Head of the Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation (TEI) section at MCI receives Endowed Chair “Entrepreneurship in Technology and Digitization” at the University of Stuttgart

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13.05.2020

SDU wins top leader to head the Centre for Industrial Mechanics

Professor Thomas Buhl, who is coming from a leading position at LM Wind Power, takes responsibility for the Centre for Industrial Mechanics (CIM) and its strategic development.

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15.04.2020

Check the water quality on your mobile

The importance of having access to clean drinking water cannot be underestimated. Researchers at SDU NanoSYD are the leaders of a project proposal designed to develop an app that can check water quality.

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New Centre

25.02.2020

New Centre for Industrial Mechanics on its way in Sønderborg

SDU joins together with Bitten & Mads Clausen Fond, LINAK, Region of Southern Denmark and Sønderborg Municipality to establish a new Centre for Industrial Mechanics (CIM) with research, new laboratories and related engineering study programmes within the field of mechanics. The total investment amounts to more than 93 mill Danish kroner by 2030.

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30.01.2020

Astronaut lost in space

and other odd problems for nerdy engineers are contributions by SDU Mechatronics to the famous and highly respected back page of Ingeniøren.

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15.01.2020

MCI upgrades its research within smart materials – hires professor Yogendra Kumar Mishra

There is a strong upgrade going on at the Mads Clausen Institute at SDU. Professor Yogendra Kumar Mishra was hired, which ensures a unique position of strength of the research within three-dimensional smart materials.

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01.11.2019

SDU picks world-famous leading professor to head SDU Centre for Quantum Mathematics

On 1 November, Professor Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen joins SDU as Head of the newly established Centre for Quantum Mathematics. He is the research manager of the project ’Recursive and Exact New Quantum Theory’ that last year received a 10- million-euro grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

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SDU Sønderborg

04.10.2019

Inauguration of a beacon for energy-efficient technology

The Centre for Industrial Electronics at SDU in Sønderborg has now been officially inaugurated. It is the home of research, innovation and three new engineering programmes.

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01.10.2019

Organic solar cells – even greener solar energy and the architects’ dream

These days, the '100% Climate Neutrality 'conference is taking place at Alsion in Sonderborg. The conference focuses on bringing solutions into play regarding the climate challenges the world is facing. One of the solutions brought into play are organic solar cells that are on the point of having their industrial breakthrough.

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15.05.2019

Vida Engmann from SDU receives esteemed ‘For Women in Science’ Award

Three of Denmark’s most talented researchers within natural sciences received the ’For Women in Science’ Award on 15 May. One of those talented researchers is assistant professor Vida Engmann from SDU Sonderborg

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11.03.2019

Cooperation with students: - Fast, easy and exceedingly productive!

Fertin Pharma A/S is the latest company among a number of those who have been cooperating with SDU Sonderborg’s students. The company commended the young engineer brains for their inventive input. At the same time, they give a very glad smiley for the entire process which required only few resources but created large value.

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08.03.2019

Hackathon - Broaden your horizons with an intensive programme

A Hackathon is an intensive camp where students get down to some intense geeking to come up with creative solutions. The camp lasts for a very short period of time, during which the students drop everything to focus 100% solely on your company's case or problem.

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07.03.2019

Breakthrough for organic solar cells

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Sønderborg have achieved breakthrough within organic solar cells. They have succeeded in prolonging the lifetime of organic solar cells – a crucial point if organic solar cells are to compete with conventional silicon solar cells.

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23.01.2019

The man who makes the magic happen

Professor Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi is a pioneer within the research areas named Plasmonics and Nano Optics. Both hands are needed if you want to count the phenomena and concepts that can be ascribed the Danish top researcher of Russian origin. This is due to an indomitable will, a great imagination and a belief in the impossible. Now he is the latest recipient of the Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award in Science and Technology.

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17.01.2019

OJ Electronics got inspired by SDU students

The Innovation and Business programme (IB) at SDU combines engineering, innovation, and business sense. And this is useful to industry. Recently, students from the engineering programme presented their ideas on how to solve tasks and challenges set by OJ Electronics during a project collaboration. The collaboration was valuable to both students and company.

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21.12.2018

World class X-ray equipment for academic and industrial applications

The Mads Clausen Institute has acquired a SKYSCAN 2214 which is one of the finest x-ray tomographs in the world. It has an incredibly large resolution and can be applied in a large range of industry applications.

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21.12.2018

Measurement of industrial components for LODAM

By collaborating with SDU and the Mads Clausen Institute, you can get access to world-class technological equipment and by this become a forerunner regarding the development of ground-breaking technology. LODAM, which is a producer of high-technological products within cooling, heating and ventilation, is one of those companies that has benefitted from this when they had sent electronic components to SDU for a closer look.

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23.11.2018

Topping-out ceremony for Centre for Industrial Electronics

Today's topping-out ceremony emphasised that the new CIE building is well over midway. LINAK CEO, Bent Jensen, gave thanks to the tradesmen for their huge work efforts on behalf of the owners.

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22.11.2018

The Mads Clausen Institute launches newsletter - to foster collaboration with industry

We'd so much love to collaborate with you. This is the statement of the Mads Clausen Institute at SDU in Sonderburg which now launches an initiative to foster industrial collaboration.

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19.11.2018

Come to hear a talk by former NASA engineer, Gabe Gabrielle!

Are you dreaming about a tour to Mars? Then come and listen to a talk given by Gabe Gabrielle, former engineer for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It will almost feel like being there yourself.

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02.11.2018

Jacek Fiutowski and IRCA receive BHJ Award

A happy and proud Jacek Fiutowski won the BHJ award as ‘Young researcher of the year’ on Friday, 2 November. The prize is given to SDU Sonderburg staff members below the age of 40. Jacek has asserted himself with ground-breaking research that has been filling front pages in acknowledged research magazines. Innovation Research Cluster Alsion (IRCA) received 100.000 kroner from the foundation.

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26.10.2018

Ærø becomes a new network partner in SDU project – the green island is supposed to become even greener

The little gem in the southern Danish sea, Ærø, produces more power than the island itself consumes. Paradoxically, Ærø is nevertheless forced to export and import power because the consumption pattern of the inhabitants does not match the production of the six large wind turbines on the southwest coast of the island. This problem is now addressed by an Interreg project with SDU as lead partner.

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05.10.2018

Workshop in Sønderborg builds bridges

You probably understand what Siri, Alexa and Google tell you. But do you really like to talk to these programs, and are they always spot on, when they speak to you? Probably not. A group of international speech and language researchers, who met last week in Sønderborg, are working to do something about that.

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29.09.2018

Get up to 900,000 DKK in co-financing!

Did you know that enterprises are offered to get in touch with researchers willing to help them develop new products and new solutions? Have a look at ’Digital Omstilling’ – Innovation collaboration where researchers from the Mads Clausen Institute, SDU Sønderborg, find great value in the close industrial collaboration: 

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15.09.2018

Companies are invited to Matchmaking Engineering Event at SDU Sønderborg

SDU Sønderborg is hosting the Matchmaking Engineering Event at Alsion on Tuesday 8 October where companies and students will have the opportunity of getting to know each other before possibly agreeing on student jobs, internships or thesis collaboration. And it is worthwhile coming – also for small and medium-sized enterprises. 

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14.09.2018

PhD defense by Golnaz Sherafatipour

PhD student Golnaz Sherafatipour with defend her PhD thesis titled "Degradation pathways in organic small molecule and hydrid solar cells".

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05.09.2018

Study: Public research creates value for companies

A recent Novo Nordisk Foundation study reveals that private Danish research companies depend on access to researchers in the public sector. Researcher and head of SDU TEI at SDU Sønderborg Arne Bilberg agrees: ”Sometimes 1+1 make more than 2.”

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16.07.2018

Nano test to ensure safety of future cosmetics and foods

Nanoparticles make their way into a broad range of products and help to optimise everyday life, but the tiny particles can also end up taking their toll on our health. The nanotechnology centres at the Mads Clausen Institute, NanoSYD in Sonderborg and Nanooptics in Odense, now received funding for a project that will test products for possible harmful particles.

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03.05.2018

PhD defense by Elzbieta Karolina Sobolewska

PhD student Elzbieta Karolina Sobolewska with defend her PhD thesis titled "Organic Plasmonic Hydrid Systems for Optoelectronic Applications".

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13.04.2018

Digging has commenced for the Centre for Industrial Electronics

The first spade of soil for the Centre for Industrial Electronics (CIE) in Sønderborg was turned over today. The centre is the result of an exceptional regional initiative and a unique collaboration. The CIE will be the home of three new SDU Engineering programmes and research at an international level, and it will meet corporate demands for skilled labour.

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12.04.2018

PhD defense by Pawel Cielecki

PhD student Pawel Cielecki with defend his PhD thesis titled "Time-resolved photoluminescence measurements of organic materials and devices".

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23.03.2018

Sønderborg's schools to make a green mark

Schools in Sønderborg and its environs are to work on becoming more climate friendly in the coming months. It is not so much a question of replacing a coughing and spluttering oil-fired boiler, but rather a comprehensive project ranging from general approaches to how the individual students can do their bit to help the green transition on its way.

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06.02.2018

Rambøll donation facilitates expansion of FabLab

Rambøll donation enables engineering students to independently apply modern workshop technologies such as 3D printing and laser cutting, along with a wide variety of classic manufacturing methods.

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11.01.2018

SDU Sønderborg obtains approval of Bachelor of Engineering programme in Electronics

In December, the Ministry of Education and Research approved two new programmes in the form of a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Engineering and a Master of Science (MSc) in Engineering in Electronics, both of which are offered from SDU Sønderborg this year. Today, another approval came from Søren Pind’s ministry, namely of the Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Electronics.

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08.01.2018

PhD defense by Mina Mirsafaei

PhD student Mina Mirsafaei will defend her PhD thesis titled "Plasmonic Nanostructures for Organic Solar Cells".

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20.11.2017

PhD defense by Bhushan Patil

PhD student Bhushan Patil with defend his PhD thesis titled "Interfacial layers and semi-transparent electrodes for large area flexible organic photovoltaics".

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10.11.2017

PhD defense by Mehrad Ahmadpour

PhD student Mehrad Ahmadpour with defend his PhD thesis titled "Metal-Oxide based interlayers for organic and perovskite photovoltaics".

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08.11.2017

Kaunas Science Award to KTU Professor Sigitas Tamulevičius

This year's Kaunas Science Award was awarded to professor Sigitas Tamulevičius, Director of Kaunas University of Technology, director of the KTU Materials Science Institute. Professor Tamulevičius is also Honorary Professor at University of Southern Denmark.

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06.10.2017

SDU Sønderborg's connection with Arnold Schwarzenegger

In the film Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger sets about exterminating all humans on earth. Today, Schwarzenegger is trying to save humanity from the climate changes the world is facing. To that end, his advisor, Professor Jose Galizia Tundisi, has entered into a collaboration with SDU Sønderborg

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05.10.2017

Climate conference reached important conclusions

'100% Climate Neutrality' at Alsion attracted over 400 participants from all over Europe

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04.10.2017

PhD defense by Matej Simurda

PhD student Matej Simurda will defend his PhD thesis titled "Mathematical modelling of ultrasound propagation in multi-phase flow"

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21.08.2017

Danish-German collaboration set to retain production in border region

A three-year project with the aim of strengthening the region's competitiveness in production is underway.

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17.08.2017

Danish-German collaboration set to retain production in border region

A three-year project with the aim of strengthening the region's competitiveness in production is underway.

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30.06.2017

Strong partnership behind new center at SDU

A unique collaboration between public and private enterprises forms the basis for new research and innovation facilities as well as new engineering study programmes at SDU in Sønderborg. SDU, Danfoss A/S, LINAK A/S, the Region of Southern Denmark and Sønderborg Municipality each invest DKK 35-36m in a new Center for Industrial Electronics.

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21.06.2017

PhD defense by Agnieszka Radziwon

PhD student Agnieszka Radziwon will defend her PhD thesis titled "Exploring inter-organizational collaboration for innovation in a regional ecosystem"

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20.06.2017

PhD defense by Frederik Gottlieb

PhD student Frederik Gottlieb will defend his PhD thesis titled "Entrepreneurial Identity as Emerging in Innovative Relations"

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24.05.2017

Alexander Brem appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Southern Denmark

Alexander Brem has been awarded an honorary professorship at the Mads Clausen Institute at the University of Southern Denmark - an institute where he has already had crucial influence. The honorary professorship opens up an even closer collaboration between the University of Southern Denmark and the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).

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11.05.2017

Danish-German Collaboration to Clear the Way for Ultra-Fast and Accurate Cancer Diagnosis

Improved and ultra-fast diagnosis of cancer. This is the primary objective of collaboration between University of Southern Denmark, Universität zu Lübeck, Odense University Hospital and UKSH Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein. 

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05.05.2017

Head of Department at SDU Sønderborg receives "The Funen Nobel Prize"

The Head of the Mads Clausen Institute at the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg, Horst-Günter Rubahn, received a great honour on Thursday when he was awarded Fyens Stiftstidende's Researcher Prize 2017.

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20.02.2017

PhD defense by Robert Brehm

PhD student Robert Brehm will defend his PhD thesis titled "Methods for Distributed Optimal Energy Management"

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03.02.2017

NASA participates in MCI seminar

MCI holds seminar on lithium-ion battery technology. NASA-researcher participates with lecture on the use of the batteries in space applications.

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27.01.2017

PhD defense by Paul Coman

PhD student Paul Coman will defend his PhD thesis titled "Modeling of Li-Ion battery packs as basis for design of battery thermal management systems"

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24.01.2017

PhD defense by André Luis Fernandes Cauduro

PhD student André Luis Fernandes Cauduro will defend his PhD thesis titled "Growth, properties and applications of Mo Ox thin-films deposited by reactive sputtering"

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23.01.2017

PhD defense by Shakil Ahmed

PhD student Shakil Ahmed will defend his PhD thesis titled "Implementation of immunomagnetic separation (IMS) for the enrichment and automated detection of bacterial contaminants in flow through lab on the chip technology"

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14.12.2016

SDU to print cheap and ultra-thin solar panels

Researchers at SDU NanoSYD have succeeded in producing highly effective paper-thin organic solar panels. Now they will attempt to print out the solar panels in rolls several metres long so that the panels can be spread over roofs and cars.

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10.10.2016

100% Conference reveals need to study successful green-tech start-ups

Scientists and practitioners joined in discussion of future renewable energies at the binational series of annual conference on renewable energy and climate neutrality

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05.10.2016

Green Water receives three quarters of a million DKK

The eco-friendly project Green Water receives 750.000 DKK from the energy supplier SE.

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29.09.2016

Small donation makes a big difference

Donation from Danfoss Foundation for Education enables important experiments in-house

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22.09.2016

Renewable energy across borders

Third conference about the future of renewable energies in the cross-border region

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15.09.2016

Innovation and Business students developed business ideas in Berlin

In late August, three Innovation and Business students from SDU Sønderborg participated in SPICE Startup Camp in Berlin to develop their own businesses.

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06.09.2016

PhD school sparks closer cooperation

PhD school cooperation brings research institutions to set up joint innovation activities and nano conference.

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01.09.2016

New future for Danfoss technology at SDU

The new RollFlex centre was presented when Jørgen Mads Clausen visited the Mads Clausen Institute. Parts of the centre originate from a previous Danfoss production facility.

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22.08.2016

Great interest in financial aid for companies

A large number of small and medium-sized enterprises have signed up for a special info-meeting about funding from the Innovation Fund Denmark.

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10.08.2016

Students won trip to Uvex in Southern Germany and sold their idea to the company

Engineering students from the study program Innovation and Business got a great idea and won a trip to the company Uvex in Southern Germany – and convinced Uvex to proceed working with the concept.

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08.07.2016

Six Mio. DKK to improve organic solar cells

New project aims to enhance the lifetime of flexible solar panels

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08.07.2016

Large energy project launched at MCI

A new international project will secure efficient use of local energy resources

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01.07.2016

MCI part of advanced automower development project

Just as it is possible to get an automower for the lawn, a new and more advanced lawn care robot for golf courses and other larger turf areas is coming. It cuts and aerates the turf as well as remove weeds.

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17.06.2016

AutomationsBoost to help small and medium-sized Danish production companies

New project will provide new automation solutions and digitalization to small and medium-sized enterprises of the region

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02.06.2016

Expert jury rubber-stamped student project

Engineering students from Innovation and Business presented new business concepts to an expert jury

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30.05.2016

Project Exhibition: Mechatronic Design for Circular Economy

Students in their forth semester of the Mechatronics engineering programme have considered user needs and designed small energy harvesters made of 20% recyclable materials

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20.05.2016

Alumni from Innovation and Business met at Alsion

Alumni from Innovation and Business met again this year and visited Alsie Express as part of the event

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12.05.2016

Baltic TRAM-project to upscale research in the Baltic Sea Region

Three Million Euro investment intensifies strategic cooperation between research institutions and business in the Baltic Sea Region

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03.05.2016

PhD defence by Arkadiusz Goszczak

PhD student Arkadiusz Goszczak will defend his PhD thesis titled "Nanostructures for Organic Solar Cells".

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02.05.2016

PhD defence by Kasper Paasch

PhD student Kasper Paasch will defend his PhD thesis titled "Power Electronic System for Multi-MW PV Sites".

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27.04.2016

Green power electronics project off to a good start

On March 16, the representatives of six Baltic Sea neighbors gathered to push the Interreg project Power Electronics for Green Energy Efficiency off to a good start. The launch marks the beginning of an effort to increase green energy consumption by means of Advanced Power Electronics

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21.04.2016

Danish Research Festival with Simon Talbot, spot-on research and debate on borders

The time has come again to celebrate the Danish Research Festival, which is a national event providing everybody a glimpse of the world of researchers and see how research affects our everyday lives. SDU Sønderborg hosts a series of exciting activities for children and grown-ups over the course of the Danish Research Festival-week. It all takes place at Alsion.

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04.03.2016

The Bitten and Mads Clausen Foundation supports Innovation Lab with 1 mill. DKK

Thanks to a generous donation by the Bitten and Mads Clausen Foundation, the section SDU Innovation and Design Engineering of the Mads Clausen Institute, SDU, can now implement a well-designed innovation lab.

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01.03.2016

EU-millions to boost position of strength in border region

Enterprises on both sides of the Danish-German border hold a strong position of know-how about effective power control and application – from electronic equipment and transportation to industrial production and energy generation. Now, 3 million euro granted by the EU and the Region of Southern Denmark must ensure that the position of strength is further developed and that the strong competences can improve the basis for economic growth and employment.

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27.02.2016

New framework for responsible development and innovation

MCI-project publishes framework for responsible development and innovation in industrial companies.

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10.02.2016

Two ministers visiting SDU

Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister for Higher Education and Science, and Ellen Trane Nørby, Minister for Children, Education and Gender Equality are visiting SDU in Sonderborg on Friday 5 February.

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10.02.2016

New Year's reception at campus Sønderborg

About 100 guests from academia, industry and local authorities from either side of the Danish-German border gathered for the New Year’s reception at SDU’s campus in Sønderborg; this year organized by the Mads Clausen Institute.

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05.02.2016

BHJ Research Award goes to Morten Madsen

On 5 February 2016 the BHJ Foundation honoured Associate Professor Morten Madsen’s outstanding and systematic commitment in building up a group on ‘Organic Photovoltaics’ at the Mads Clausen Institute.

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03.12.2015

PhD defence by Konstantin Filonenko

PhD student Konstantin Filonenko will defend his thesis titled "Mathematical modelling of the Purcell effect in plasmonic nanostructures"

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13.11.2015

New exchange agreement with Chinese university

The Mads Clausen Institute and The Faculty of Engineering, SDU, have signed a new exchange agreement with the Chinese university Xi’an Jiaotong University.

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23.10.2015

Opening of Green Water Living Lab

The sea water energy project Green Water celebrated opening of Living Lab.

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09.10.2015

Climate Neutrality – if we can, you can too

A two-day conference held at SDU in Sønderborg demonstrated how the local community practices climate neutrality

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09.09.2015

Innovative cooperation between SDU and ”Det Blå Gymnasium”

104 high school students from ”Det Blå Gymnasium” in Sønderborg and Selandia Slagelse attended an innovation camp recently. Over the course of two days, the high school students worked through an innovation process facilitated by engineering students from the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg.

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03.09.2015

High school students enlightened with engineering perspective on equations

Two classes from Sønderborg Statsskole switched their class room with a lecture hall at Alsion and received their math lessons at SDU – seasoned with a special engineering perspective.

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29.06.2015

A victory for Jens

Mechatronics engineer from the Mads Clausen Institute Jens Christensen received the BHJ Foundation’s award for best bachelor project.

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22.06.2015

Unique waterjet cutter helps engineering students

As the only university in Denmark, The University of Southern Denmark has installed a waterjet cutter at the Mads Clausen Institute in Sønderborg. The machine is employed to produce everything from lab equipment to student projects.

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10.06.2015

International climate conference at the MCI

The Mads Clausen Institute is among the organizers of a cross-border climate conference to be held for the first time and takes place at SDU Sønderborg.

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28.05.2015

PhD defense by Oksana Kostiucenko

PhD student Oksana Kostiucenko will defend her thesis titled "Generation and preservation of field enhancement for organic-plasmonic devices"

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21.05.2015

Expert jury evaluated student projects

From idea to business plan: Engineering students presented their business concepts to an external expert jury.

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28.04.2015

IRCA scientific film festival

As a part of the Festival of Research the new innovation cluster, IRCA, hosted a scientific film festival. Four finalists were presented at the scientific film festival ceremony in the Concert Hall, Alsion Sønderborg.

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20.03.2015

University cooperation to increase efficiency of solar cells

The Mads Clausen Institute has entered into cooperation with Aarhus University with the aim of increasing the efficiency of solar cells. The project is called SunTune and is supported by Innovationsfonden with a total of 23 million DKK.

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13.03.2015

Million donation turns student project from MCI into energy venture in Sønderborg

A donation of 1.22 million from the Bitten and Mads Clausen Foundation elevates engineering student project to green energy development effort.

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09.02.2015

The BHJ Foundation once again favours the MCI

University teacher, research project and network cooperation received a total of DKK 820.000.

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06.02.2015

Danfoss donations to the Mads Clausen Institute

The Mads Clausen Institute has received several donations from different Danfoss foundations over a period of time. The donations favour different purposes at MCI and contribute to the acquisition of equipment supporting teaching as well as research.

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28.01.2015

Foundation supports test setup with smart materials

With DKK 50.000 from the Fabrikant Mads Clausen Foundation, students and researchers will perform tests with smart materials – including the so-called artificial muscles.

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15.01.2015

PhD defence by Chan Nguyen

PhD student Chan Nguyen will defend his thesis titled “Modelling and exergy analysis of district cooling”

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07.01.2015

Extension for important honorary professorship

Honorary professor Dr. Katharina Al-Shamery’s cooperation with SDU has produced good results. The honorary professorship is now extended for five years.

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07.01.2015

PhD defence by Björn Rechenbach

PhD student Björn Rechenbach will defend his thesis titled "Mathematical modelling of electromechanical systems".

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22.12.2014

Cooperation to retain young people

The University of Southern Denmark, the Municipalities of Tønder and Kreis Nordfriesland enter into cooperation about retaining young people in the region.

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17.12.2014

The ORION microscope – a ground-breaking instrument with a great number of application possibilities

Last Friday, the installation of the ORION helium ion microscope at the Mads Clausen Institute was celebrated with a launch event.

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17.12.2014

A playful light innovation got the first price

For the second time the Mads Clausen Institute distributed the Alsion Innovation Award. The jury had to pick out the winner among almost ten innovative applications. The winner was LEGELiGHT.

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03.10.2014

Celebration of the cross border collaboration

For the first time The University of Applied Sciences' tradition-steeped Nordic Evening was held together with the Mads Clausen Institute on Danish soil. The evening showed once again, that the cross border collaboration is unique.

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14.09.2014

Entrepreneurship opportunities strengthened for students

SDU and iFabrikken have signed an agreement helping students convert good ideas to new companies.

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08.09.2014

Engineering students push-started bike project

Svendborg Municipality has initiated a project of enhancing bicycle transportation. Students from Innovation and Business kick started the project.

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08.08.2014

MCI Academy about challenges and changes in the border region

MCI Academy, the yearly scientific conference at the Mads Clausen Institute, looks at the border region with special focus on climate, business and art.

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04.07.2014

Honorary doctor part of Ph.D. summer school at MCI

Professor and Honorary Doctor of SDU Karl Leo visits MCI when participating in a Ph.D. summer school in August.

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02.07.2014

MCI part of Green Tech Center opening

Great interest in MCI workshops at Green Tech Center opening.

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30.06.2014

Engineering project received award for best bachelor assignment

A student from the engineering study program Innovation and Business received the BHJ Foundation’s award for best bachelor assignment.

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19.06.2014

PerforManD receives Danish-German Innovation Award

The EU project PerforManD, which develops advanced, mechatronic training equipment for professional sailors, has receive the innovation award Dybbøl 2014.

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04.06.2014

Sailing equipment from MCI in use at Oxbridge

German Olympic sailor demonstrated the innovative sailing equipment PerforManD at Oxbridge.

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26.05.2014

More responsible innovation in industry

MCI takes part in developing a Best Practice model to make industrial companies act more responsibly.

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23.04.2014

PhD defence by Robb Mitchell

PhD student Robb Mitchell will defend his thesis titled 'Facilitating Shared Understandings of Risk'.

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24.03.2014

New beginning for Technet_nano

The partners parted with the EU project Technet_nano. At the same time, they put their names to continue working together.

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17.03.2014

MCI to lead network project in green power electronics

The Mads Clausen Institute has received DKK 350.000 to build a network in the Baltic Sea region

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06.03.2014

PhD defence by Gang Li

PhD student Gang Li will defend his PhD thesis titled 'Multi-Core System Architecture for Embedded Control Applications'

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21.02.2014

PhD defence by Ronen Hadar

PhD student Ronen Hadar will defend his PhD thesis titled 'Glocalized Production – A Holistic Approach for Future Production at The LEGO Group'.

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18.02.2014

PhD defence by Janet Kelly

PhD student Janet Kelly will defend her thesis titled 'Designing for a relationship other than use'.

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27.01.2014

Innovative sailing equipment from MCI will be ready for commercial production

Add-on grant will make innovative sailing equipment, partially developed at MCI, ready for commercial production.

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19.12.2013

Head of Institute becomes member of Denmark’s Scientific Academy

Professor and Head of Institute Horst-Günter Rubahn has been appointed member of Denmark’s Scientific Academy

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17.12.2013

Casper Kunstmann-Olsen in Christmas Calendar on TV Syd

Did you see the Christmas Calendar? 24 researchers at SDU are unwrapping Christmas with a short story where research and Christmas are tied together.

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05.11.2013

New equipment for MCI with donation from Fabrikant Mads Clausen Fonden

With a total amount of 300.000 DKK, a donation from Danfoss ensures new equipment of use to research and education at MCI.

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10.10.2013

MCI to increase automation in companies in Southern Denmark

The Mads Clausen Institute, EUCSyd, Udviklingsråd Sønderjylland and five companies have launched a project of 6 mio. DKK, which is to increase the automation in 100 companies in Southern Denmark.

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03.10.2013

MCI in cooperation with German institute of food technology

The Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg, has entered into a cooperative agreement with the institute of food technology KIN in Neumünster.

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14.08.2013

Researchers from MCI published in prestigious “Physical Review Letters”

Researchers from the Mads Clausen Institute have succeeded in getting an article published in the prestigious scientific journal Physical Review Letters. The article is about nanofiber plasmonic waveguides, which in the future can enable ultra-fast transfer of information technology.

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08.08.2013

An important day for cross-border collaborations

Torsten Albig, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, visited the Mads Clausen Institute to learn more about cross-border collaborations at SDU.

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05.07.2013

Engineering projects took the project awards

The BHJ Foundation’s Project Awards went to two engineering projects at the summer graduation ceremony at the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg.

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19.06.2013

Large number of students from A.P. Møller Skolen visited the University of Southern Denmark

The A.P. Møller Skolen in Schleswig paid a visit at SDU in Sønderborg with an unusual large number of students

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17.06.2013

MCI hosts workshop on intelligent solar cells

Researchers from different European universities participate in workshop on new solar cell technologies at the Mads Clausen Institute

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04.06.2013

NanoSYD leads new large EU project on organic solar cells

The FP7 Marie Curie programme Initial Training Network (ITN) has granted around 29 million DKK for establishment of a new network led by NanoSYD, The Mads Clausen Institute. The project will focus on development of new types of energy devices based on organic materials. Among other things, the network will include research in and development of new types of solar cells based on organic thin-films, which in the future is aimed at playing a role in reducing the use of fossil fuels.

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02.05.2013

Young engineers played with women’s legs

Faaborg High School visited the Mads Clausen Institute recently as part of a camp. The high school students were given a project including tests with women’s legs

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02.05.2013

Danfoss donation gives high school classes camp-opportunity at SDU and Universe

A donation from Danfoss’ Fabrikant Mads Clausen Foundation makes it possible for high school classes to participate in camps at SDU and Universe

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21.04.2013

Praise for Innovation and Business at alumni seminar

A large group of graduates and current students participated in the first alumni event for the MSc engineering program Innovation and Business. Representatives from industry emphasized the graduates' ability to communicate and navigate in companies.

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18.03.2013

Launch of Emerging Attraction at the MCI

On March 7, the Mads Clausen Institute set the frames for the Danish opening of the Interreg IVa project Emerging Attraction. The project is a cross-border collaboration with the purpose of battling the lack of highly educated people in the Danish-German region.

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26.02.2013

Associate professor at the Mads Clausen Institute received teaching award

Associate professor Jerome Jouffroy received one of the three teaching awards from the BHJ Foundation

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05.02.2013

Research project on diabetic foot ulcer receives grant of DKK 45.000

Postdoc Fei Yu of the Mads Clausen Institute has been granted DKK 45.000 from TEK Momentum for a research project. The project focuses on the development of equipment for continuous monitoring of edema among diabetes patients

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From Funen to the frontline of physics: Mechatronics engineer landed dream job at CERN

26-year-old Jonas Kampp works as a mechatronics engineer for the world's largest physics laboratory, CERN in Switzerland.

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Scientific consensus for perovskite solar cells published in Nature Energy

The so-called perovskite solar cells are on the cusp of becoming a commercial breakthrough but, despite promising results, it has been difficult to compare the scientific breakthroughs because of differences in the description of progress. Together with an international research group led by Monica Lira-Cantu (ICN2, Barcelona) as well as Eugene Katz and Mark Khenkin (Ben-Gurion University, Negev), the solar cell group at SDU NanoSYD in Sonderborg have released a statement on the description of progress in connection to the stability of perovskite solar cells. The statement is published in the highly acknowledged research magazine Nature Energy.

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Morten Madsen appointed professor wsr

MSc in Engineering, PhD in Functional Materials and Nanotechnology, wsr and head of research Morten Madsen has been appointed professor wsr (with special responsibilities) at the Mads Clausen Institute, SDU. Despite his only 40 years of age, Morten Madsen has already manifested himself as an internationally acknowledged researcher within organic solar cells.

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Scouts served with marshmallows frozen with liquid nitrogen at SDU Sønderborg

SDU Sønderborg, along with the rest of the town, welcomed scouts and guides from all over the world for Jamboree Denmark 2017. SDU students put on a thrilling science show that demonstrated how closely the worlds of scouts and engineers are connected.

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